$25,000 grants awarded to 21 Latinx/é arts organizations across the U.S., including Puerto Rico
San Antonio, November 6, 2025 – The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) is excited to announce the recipients of the 2025 NALAC Fund for the Arts (NFA): National Arts Partners grants. The awards, totaling $525,000, will provide unrestricted organizational grants of $25,000 to twenty-one Latinx/é arts organizations across the United States, including Puerto Rico, in eleven disciplines ranging from craft and culinary arts to literary arts and film.
“The 2025 NFA: National Arts Partners grantees reflect the vibrancy of our communities, charting thirteen states and three distinct regions within Puerto Rico while serving varied publics and affinities within Latinidad,” said Cat Rodríguez, NALAC Director of Programs. “We trust that these venerable orgs are best positioned to intimately know and ingeniously meet the specific needs of their respective communities during this critical moment. We’re honored to buttress their work.”
The 2025 NALAC Fund for the Arts (NFA): National Arts Partners awards are granted with funds from The Wallace Foundation’s Advancing Well-Being in the Arts initiative, which supports and seeks to learn more about arts organizations rooted in communities of color. The collaborative awards offer unrestricted funding, providing arts organizations with flexible support for operating expenses intended to strengthen the organization’s infrastructure and ability to fulfill its mission, capacity-building initiatives, strategic planning, investment in technical capacity, and staff development, in addition to supporting their programming.
“We are deeply grateful to the Wallace Foundation, as well as our peers within the National Arts Partners cohort, for their investment and collaboration. This partnership strengthens our work as grant makers and positions us to continue building the capacity of our field,” shared Mari Hernandez, NALAC CEO and President.
Now in its 17th year, the NALAC Fund for the Arts (NFA) grant program has stood as the premier national grant program exclusively supporting Latinx/é artists, cultural practitioners, and arts organizations based in the U.S., including Puerto Rico. Since its inception, the NALAC Fund for the Arts grant program has awarded over 1,300 grants to the Latinx/é arts and cultures field, reflecting an investment of over $8 million in funding.
Learn more about the 2025 NALAC Fund for the Arts (NFA): National Arts Partners grantees.
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About NALAC
The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) is the nation’s premier nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to the promotion, advancement, development, and cultivation of the Latino arts field. For more information about NALAC and its programs, please visit www.nalac.org.
About The Wallace Foundation
The Wallace Foundation is an independent, nonpartisan research foundation focused on the arts, school leadership, and youth development. Wallace collaborates with grantees and research partners to design and test innovative approaches to address pressing problems in the field it serves. The evidence-based insights shared–searchable online and free of charge–support policymakers and practitioners in their efforts to improve outcomes, enhance community vitality, and help all people reach their full potential. www.WallaceFoundation.org
Media Contacts:
Cat Rodríguez, Director of Programs, crodriguez@nalac.org
Penny Rodriguez, Director of Communications, prodriguez@nalac.org
Image: Femme Frontera, 2025 NALAC Fund for the Arts: National Arts Partners Grantee